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The aim of this work is to make use of current models of thought based on the paradigm of complexity as E. Morin1 describes it (1977), in order to combine them with psychoanalytic theories on the feminine, including its contradictions and impasses.
The proposal is to consider the feminine position as a construction that is based on different and contradictory orders. This notion implies the coexistence of heterogeneous logics.
Psychoanalytic theory is not homogeneous. In Freudian works there is not a unique way of thinking concerning the feminine. Freud's thought was very much determined by cultural influences about women, and his thinking was dominated by phallic conceptions. So, could we say it is archaic to include Freud's ideas in relation to femininity? However, there is another viewpoint about Freud's works: He never rejected an idea even if he could not include it in his main theoretical position. Until the very end of his life he always maintained ideas that were contradictory.
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